Like most museums nationally, the Twin Cities’ two largest art centers are struggling to bring more diversity to their curatorial staffs. One problem: Their staffs get poached by other museums.

At the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), only two out of 15 current curators identify as people of color. The museum just lost its photography/new media curator, Yasufumi Nakamori, who is a native of Japan.

And Walker Art Center lost curator-at-large Adrienne Edwards this spring to New York City’s Whitney Museum of American Art. At present, five of the Walker’s 11-person curatorial staff identify as people of color.

“In order for Mia to stay relevant and meaningful to our audience, it’s important our employees are representative of the changing demographics of the Twin Cities,” said Mia’s director, Kaywin Feldman. “While our institution-wide employee demographics reflect this, we realize there is always room for improvement. Mia is one of the first museums to create a diversity and inclusion manager role to directly address this.”

Nakamori, who left Mia to take a senior curatorial position in London, acknowledged that while the museum has made advances, “Mia has a long way to go ... there should be more senior curators who are curators of color.”

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